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May 30, 2023

China Sends its First Civilian to Space

China sent its first civilian astronaut into space as part of a crewed mission to the Tiangong space station.
Gui Haichao, a payload expert, took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China.
Until recently, all Chinese astronauts in space were members of the People's Liberation Army.
According to the space agency, Gui, a professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, will mainly be responsible for the on-orbit operation of space science experimental payloads.
The commander of this mission is Jing Haipeng, who is on his fourth trip into space, while the third crew member is engineer Zhu Yangzhu.

May 29, 2023

ISRO Launches Its Next-generation Navigational Satellite - NVS-1 from Sriharikota

The Indian Space Research Organisation conducted the fifth launch of 2023 as it lifted off a 2232-kilogram satellite, part of its NavIC series, into space. The NVS-1 launched onboard GSLV F12 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
The NVS-1 is the first satellite of the next-generation NavIC satellite aimed to augment the navigational capabilities of the country. The system was developed looking at the growing requirements of the Civil Aviation sector in the country for better positioning, navigation, and timing.
The NavIC satellites are used in terrestrial, aerial, and marine transportation, location-based services, personal mobility, resource monitoring, surveying and geodesy, scientific research, time dissemination and synchronization, and safety-of-life alert dissemination.

May 28, 2023

South Korea Launches Home-grown Space Rocket Nuri

South Korea launched its home-grown space rocket, making its first achievement to send a satellite for commercial use into orbit, after a postponement of the launch from the previous day due to communications problems between launch control computers.
The Korean Satellite Launch Vehicle Two (KSLV-II), nicknamed Nuri, lifted off into space from the launch pad at Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Jeolla Province, 473 km south of Seoul.
Korea's status as an aerospace powerhouse has been enhanced with the successful third launch. In the second test launch in June 2022, the country became one of the world's seven nations including the US, Russia, China, Japan, the European Union and India, to have launched satellites of at least 1 ton with their own technology.

May 27, 2023

AI Supercomputer 'AIRAWAT' Puts India among Top Supercomputing League

At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023) in Germany, the AI Supercomputer 'AIRAWAT', situated at C-DAC, Pune, achieved an impressive global ranking of 75th on the esteemed Top 500 Global Supercomputing List. This accomplishment established India as a leading nation in the field of AI supercomputing. 'AIRAWAT' is part of the Government of India's National Program on AI and represents a significant stride forward in the country's AI capabilities.
The AIRAWAT PoC of 200 AI Petaflops integrated with PARAM Siddhi – AI of 210 AI Petaflops gives a total peak compute of 410 AI Petaflops Mixed Precision and sustained compute capacity of 8.5 Petaflops (Rmax) Double Precision. The peak compute capacity (Double Precision, Rpeak) is 13 Petaflops.

May 26, 2023

Microsoft Launches Jugalbandi, a Multilingual AI-chat Bot for Rural India

Microsoft launched Jugalbandi, a multilingual chatbot powered by generative AI, which can be accessed through the popular messaging platform WhatsApp. The chatbot has been specifically designed to serve rural areas in India that have limited media access and lack information about government welfare activities.
Developed in collaboration with AI4Bharat and IIT Madras, Jugalbandi aims to provide personalized assistance by understanding user queries in multiple languages, whether spoken or typed. The chatbot retrieves information from relevant programs, which are often available only in English, and presents it back to users in their local language.
The chatbot's initial test was in April in Biwan, a village near India's capital city of New Delhi.

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